Documents & Reports
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World Bank support to education since 2001 : a portfolio note (English)
Education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills which plays a fundamental role in poverty alleviation and economic growth. Since 2001, annual new World Bank commitments to education have more than...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 58806 Document Date: December 28, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha
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What can we learn from nutrition impact evaluations? Lessons from a review of interventions to reduce child malnutrition in developing countries (English)
This paper reviews recent impact evaluations of interventions and programs to improve child anthropometric outcomes- height, weight, and birth weight-with an emphasis on both the findings and the limitations...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 57870 Document Date: August 27, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Ambel,Alemayehu A.
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Committing to results: Improving the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS assistance : an OED evaluation of the World Bank's assistance for HIV/AIDS control (English)
This evaluation assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank's country-level HIV/AIDS assistance defined as policy dialogue, analytic work, and lending with the explicit objective of reducing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 34325 Document Date: October 11, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Gaubatz,Judith Hahn,Vaillancourt,Denise A.
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Committing to results: Improving the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS assistance : an OED evaluation of the World Bank's assistance for HIV/AIDS control : Compromiso con los resultados : mejorar la eficacia de la asistencia en la lucha contra el VIH/SIDA Evaluacion del DEO sobre la asistencia proporcionada por el Banco Mundial para el control del VIH/SIDA (Spanish)
This evaluation assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank's country-level HIV/AIDS assistance defined as policy dialogue, analytic work, and lending with the explicit objective of reducing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 34325 Document Date: October 11, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Gaubatz,Judith Hahn,Vaillancourt,Denise A.
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Committing to results: Improving the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS assistance : an OED evaluation of the World Bank's assistance for HIV/AIDS control : S'engager sur des resultats: ameliorer l'efficacite de l'assistance en matiere de lutte contre le VIH/SIDA (French)
This evaluation assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank's country-level HIV/AIDS assistance defined as policy dialogue, analytic work, and lending with the explicit objective of reducing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 34325 Document Date: June 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Gaubatz,Judith Hahn,Vaillancourt,Denise A.
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Poverty, AIDS, and children's schooling - a targeting dilemma (English)
The authors analyze the relationship between orphan status, household wealth, and child school enrollment using data collected in the 1990s from 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2885 Document Date: September 30, 2002 Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Filmer,Deon P.
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The impact of adult deaths on children's health in Northwestern Tanzania (English)
The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many Sub-Saharan African countries, with potentially severe consequences for surviving family members. Until now, most of these impacts...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2266 Document Date: January 31, 2000 Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Semali, Innocent
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Accelerating an AIDS vaccine for developing countries : Recommendations for the World Bank (English)
This paper presents the findings and recommendations of the World Bank AIDS Vaccine Task Force, formed in April 1998 to identify how the institution can accelerate the development of an AIDS vaccine for...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 27120 Document Date: January 1, 2000 Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Batson,Amie E., Geoffrey Lamb,Rosenhouse,Sandra
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Confronting AIDS : public priorities in a global epidemic (Vietnamese)
This book argues that the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS can be overcome. It draws from three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV, public health insights into disease control, and public economics...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17285 Document Date: January 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Over,A. Mead
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Transition 9 (1) (English)
Will China resist the Asian flu? an economic roundup. China's state-owned companies need urgent reform. The sale goes on: transforming small enterprises in China. Local governments: testing grounds for...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 17458 Document Date: February 28, 1998 Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Buyske,Susan Gail,Chi Fulin,Hirschler,Richard,Medvedev, Katalin,Weingast,Barry R.,Qian,Yingyi,Yuanzheng Cao
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Confronting AIDS : public priorities in a global epidemic (Chinese)
This book argues that the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS can be overcome. It draws from three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV, public health insights into disease control, and public economics...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17285 Document Date: October 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Over,A. Mead
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Confronting AIDS : public priorities in a global epidemic (English)
This book argues that the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS can be overcome. It draws from three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV, public health insights into disease control, and public economics...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17285 Document Date: October 31, 1997 Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Over,A. Mead
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Confronting AIDS : public priorities in a global epidemic (Vietnamese)
This book argues that the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS can be overcome. It draws from three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV, public health insights into disease control, and public economics...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17285 Document Date: January 1, 1997 Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Over,A. Mead
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Confronting AIDS : public priorities in a global epidemic : Hacer frente al SIDA : prioridades de la accion publica ante una epidemia mundial (Spanish)
This book argues that the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS can be overcome. It draws from three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV, public health insights into disease control, and public economics...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17285 Document Date: January 1, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Over,A. Mead
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The World Bank economic review 10(1) (English)
How important to India's poor is the sectoral composition of economic growth? Martin Ravallion and Gaurav Datt Is debt crisis history? Recent private capital inflows to developing countries. Michael Dooley...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 15465 Document Date: January 31, 1996 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Datt,Gaurav,Ainsworth,Martha,Beegle,Kathleen G.,Benefo, Kofi,Dooley,Michael P.,Fernández-Arias, Eduardo,Fevisetan, Bamikale J.,Kletzer,Kenneth M.,Maluccio,John,Montiel,Peter J.,Nyamere, Andrew,Ravallion,Martin,Schultz,Theodoro Paul,Thomas,Duncan
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Contraceptive use and the quality, price, and availability of family planning in Nigeria (English)
Nigeria has experienced high fertility and rapid population growth for at least the past thirty years. Only recently have public authorities launched efforts to promote contraceptive use. In this article...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77109 Document Date: January 1, 1996 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Feyisetan, Bamikale J.
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A symposium on fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)
During the 1980s the population of Sub-Saharan Africa grew at a rate of 3.1 percent per year, the highest of any developing region (World Bank 1993). The population of South Asia, the developing region...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77115 Document Date: January 1, 1996 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha
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The impact of women's schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries (English)
This article examines the relationship between female schooling and two behaviors, cumulative fertility and contraceptive use, in fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries where Demographic and Health Surveys...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77116 Document Date: January 1, 1996 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Beegle,Kathleen G.,Nyamete,Andrew V.
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The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries : Impact de la scolarisation des femmes sur la fécondité et l'utilisation de la contraception en Afrique sub-Saharienne : étude de quatorze pays de l'Afrique sub-Saharienne (French)
This paper examines the relationship between female schooling and two behaviors - cumulative fertility and contraceptive use - in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries where Demographic and Health Surveys...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: LSM110 Document Date: May 1, 1995 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Beegle,Kathleen G.,Nyamete,Andrew V.
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The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries (English)
This paper examines the relationship between female schooling and two behaviors - cumulative fertility and contraceptive use - in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries where Demographic and Health Surveys...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: LSM110 Document Date: February 28, 1995 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ainsworth,Martha,Beegle,Kathleen G.,Nyamete,Andrew V.